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Frequently Asked Questions - MBA

fairly similar to standardized tests like the SAT so would use that experience as a gauge for how long you need to prep. Transitions (during the summer after your first year) tends to be a less work-intensive course where you would have... View Details

20 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

it's how they perform in a job interview or how they participate in class." Cuddy acknowledges that there are moderating factors in how easily some groups can use traditional power poses. It would run counter to social norms, for example, if a woman wearing a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Jourdan Henry

I sat at a square, stainless-steel table that was cold to the touch. Two New York City Police Department detectives were on either side of me. I was interrogated as they sought to uncover why a juice box was missing or how a window was... View Details

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Salaar Shaikh

loved ones full of laughter and merriment; now, with no other Muslims in my program, and none known to me in a foreign city, I felt homesick and alone. I sat in a restaurant at my table-for-one, eating my chicken rice and vegetables at... View Details

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How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of photographs, which included 32... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Nagi Otgonshar

mother had to go out in the snow to buy candles, so that I had the luxury to study at night while others sat in darkness. I did not realize that the only way she could feed us was by walking ten miles to her two-hectare vegetable plot... View Details

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

directly from the airport to catch our Section J dance at Ekta, the annual HBS South Asian show. There was also the time when Professor Jon Jachimowicz sat and listened to me agonize over my summer internship choices and gave me valuable... View Details

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Shira Asa-El

absolute opponents. Being part of the HBS community is like Being a global citizen. I have never before sat in a room with people from so many different countries, nor have I even had the opportunity to do so. Professionally, I feel that... View Details

28 Jun 2021
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7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

week), I sat in Klarman Hall with 900 new admits. Surrounding me were veterans, entrepreneurs, scientists, activists, artists, among many others. As someone who started business school a few years later than some people choose to and... View Details

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

I am becoming. The power of that memoir title never really hit me until I sat to write this blog post. I don’t mean to quote Michelle Obama in making that statement (I mean there are definitely worse people to quote), but it’s a powerful... View Details

26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger

hardest thing for me to tell people about. And in admitting that I had a very significant failure, what it did was it made me more human to both my colleagues and my friends. I sat down with four business school classmates—great, great... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

helps scholars and firms capture and analyze conversation data online. We sat down with Professor Brooks to discuss the "How to Talk Gooder" course and to get some advice on that very topic. What is the class “How to Talk... View Details

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

increase the likelihood of buying products, but only if the decision was related more to the product's usefulness than to pure emotional desire. Water Filtration Pitchers And Batteries To that end, the researchers designed a follow-up study in which 83 participants... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

strategies that brand managers have used in order to cope with it. Avery recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss their findings. According to the paper, consumers are operating in four concurrent Web-based eras: The Age of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

sat there in my bed, phone in hand, for minutes before doing or saying anything. She was the one who made the first move – she held my hand and told me that “I was the bravest person she knew.” By now she was crying as well and so... View Details

03 Feb 2012
HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

28 Sep 2023
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Screen Time

2024, when they take a section trip to Italy. “These section Zooms have been the silver lining of the pandemic,” says Weiksnar. “I think we all have a much deeper appreciation for the people we sat with for a year in Aldrich 108.” View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief - MBA